Lawsuits Pirate IPTV Owner’s Conviction First Ever Under Protecting Lawful Streaming Act Passed by Congress late December 2020, the Protecting Lawful Streaming Act (PLSA) was crafted to urgently close a loophole in copyright law that treated unlicensed… yesterday, 19:23 by Andy Maxwell
Newspapers Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement and ‘Fake News’ Hallucinations Microsoft and OpenAI face yet another lawsuit for alleged copyright infringement. Eight newspapers, including the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and the Denver Post,… yesterday, 11:26 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Piracy CJEU Gives File-Sharer Surveillance & Data Retention a Green Light In a judgment published today, Europe's top court concludes that suspected file-sharers can be subjected to mass surveillance and retention of their data as long… April 30, 2024, 20:13 by Andy Maxwell
Law and Politics Rightsholders Want U.S. “Know Your Customer” Proposal to Include Domain Name Services The U.S. Department of Commerce has proposed new customer verification requirements for Infrastructure as a Service providers. The goal of the 'Know Your Customer' regime… April 30, 2024, 13:12 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Lawsuits DISH Sued Two IPTV Resellers: First Case Dismissed, Second Owes $30m Most civil lawsuits against alleged IPTV pirates end badly for the defendants, something easily predicted after a single read of the initial complaint. Two separate… April 29, 2024, 20:47 by Andy Maxwell
Lawsuits Court Keeps DMCA Subpoena Shortcut Closed, Restricts Piracy Settlements Earlier this year, a Hawaiian District Court blocked movie companies' efforts to unmask alleged BitTorrent pirates using a DMCA subpoena 'shortcut'. The filmmakers asked the… April 29, 2024, 12:53 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Stats Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 04/29/2024 Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Dune: Part Two' tops the chart,… April 29, 2024, 00:09 by Ernesto Van der Sar
Anti-Piracy Operation Anime Phase 2: New Anti-Piracy Crackdown Executed in Brazil Brazil's Ministry of Justice and Public Security has announced a second phase of Operation Anime, an initiative to disrupt piracy of Japanese anime and Korean… April 28, 2024, 09:35 by Andy Maxwell